Download Firefox 18 Beta with IonMonkey, Touch Input Support

The latest Firefox beta has quite a lot of new features under the hood

Firefox 18 has been pushed to the beta channel, a week after Firefox 17 became a stable release. Aurora users have been enjoying all the new features for almost two months, but Firefox 18 is now bug-free enough to be ready for a beta.

The headliner is IonMonkey, the next generation JavaScript JIT compiler, which should be faster and more efficient than the JagerMonkey engine it's replacing. More about IonMonkey here.

Also new in Firefox 18 is support for Retina Displays. It's only for Mac users for now, but then again they're the only ones who would benefit at this point.